Author: Will Singleton
Date: 16:02:30 07/01/00
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On July 01, 2000 at 04:12:02, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 01, 2000 at 03:35:47, Will Singleton wrote: >[snip] >>Looks very interesting, I'll be watching. I'll have to get you to convert mine >>to the pc/winboard platform. :) > >You simply would not believe how lazy I am if I told you. I have (probably) >40-50 different chess program sources. But the only ones I bother to convert to >Winboard are Xboard programs (because it takes about 5 mintutes). > >At some point, I want to do it right by writing a formal BNF grammar for the >WinBoard protocol, and a parser and tree walker. Then I would publish the >formal specification, and anyone who wanted to write a winboard engine would >just use my simple API. > >But that's one of those "someday" projects. > >If you already have an Xboard program, you can convert it in minutes. If you >don't it's a big project. And there is nothing more annoying than an >Xboard/Winboard program that implements the protocol incorrectly. > >My pet peeves: >1. Not exiting when it is supposed to exit. Sounds silly, but I have seen 40 >copies of an EXE filling ram to the gills and swapping the disk madly. If I use >/-reuse on Monik, it does this (for instance). >2. Exiting when it's not suppoised to exit. Don't laugh, lots of programs do >this. >;-) >The other errors are not quite as serious. >And it's *lame* in this day and age not to show the analysis. >Lame, lame, lame, lame, lame. Great monumental sweaty pools of unfathomable >lameness. Hmm, sounds like an issue. Anyone in particular? Regarding the conversion issue, it *would* be nice to get someone to convert my Mac code to run with winboard. Will
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